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POLK COUNTY NEWS, TBYON, N. O. ; IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS 0FTHE SOUTH What It Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Domestic Following the discovery of the mu tilated body of Will Cornish, farmer, in an old well near Estelle mines, six miles west of LaFayette, Ga., the wife of the dead man confessed that she killed her husband in a fit of jealousy Cornish disappeared from his home about seven weeks ago. Imports in the fiscal year ending . last June 30 were $2,946,052,402, an increase of $287,000,000 over the pre vious year, figures issued by the de partment of commerce show. Canada, with $434,254,567, led for eign countries in the value of goods sold to the United States, grain and nickel constituting the bulk of trade Outlining the nation's aircraft pro gram on his arrival in Portland Ore., John D. Ryan, federal director of air craft production, said the United .States is building fifteen ton airplanes - John D. Ryan, federal director of air craft production, said in Portland, Ore., that the larger type of bombing planes will be built in the United States while the lighter ones will be built overseas. The portrait of Emperor William, originally presented by him to Theo dore Roosevelt, was seized and muti lated and afterwards burned by a "vig ilantes" committee at Oyster Bay. It is estimated that there will be 1,500,000 bales of linters from this year's cotton crop. Control of telephone and telegraph lines was taken over by the postoffice department at midnight, July 31, and their operation placed under the gen eral supervision of a special commit tee created for the purpose by Post master General Burleson. Until fur ther notice the companies will con tinue operation in the ordinary course. All officers and employees will con tinue in the performance of their pres ent duties on the same terms of em ployment until further instructions are sent out The estimated yield of the cotton crop this year is placed at 14,500,000 bales. This is exclusive of linters, which is no longer listed with the cotton production statistics. Thorough investigations into wire condition will continue until completed before Director of the Telephone and Telegraph Burleson will make any de cided changes. "Another war charity" has gone into the discard this time in New York City. Miss Ethel Langdon Drake was ordered by the district attorney to turn over to French Ambassador Jus serand $14,000 which had been col lected for the purpose of equipping 25 ambulances for a French army, but which Miss Drake had held in her possession for an unreasonable length of time. She is further ordered to discontinue all "war charity activities" in the United States. The cotton crop has passed through the first of the two critical months of the season July and August and shows a condition of 77.4 per cent, or one-tenth of one 'per cent below the ten-year average. Continued drouth and high tempera tures in nearly all sections of Texas, except for eastern and northeastern parts, are almost entirely responsible for a loss of 11.3 points in the cotton crop. Washington. The American procedure in Sibe ria primarily looks to the aid of the Czechoslovaks, and all doubtful points between the United States and Japan have apparently been cleared. There is no probability of future mis understanding, and the plan of opera tion will be at once put into execution. The money and property which, for merly German-owned in the United States, has been taken over by A. Mitchell Palmer, enemy property cus todian, has passed the five hundred million dollar mark, it is announced. Establishment of a national public utilities administration to recommend rate increases for certain utilities as a war measure, has been recommend ed to the president by the National Association of Railways and Utility Commmissioners, representing practi cally all state commissions. In announcing that credits to the al lied governments have reached $6,492, 040,000 treasury official said that se crecy would be maintained as to the disposition of this money, thus with holding Information from the enemy. From the American army on the Marne front comes the encouraging news that through a barrage as dead ly as -any the Germans laid down on any sector for months, the American soldiers, comprising men from the middle west and eastern states, push ed their line forward, which now forms the apex of the long allied front. The east end of the line along the Marne swings northeasterly opposite Seringes-et-Nesles and then drops off sharply in the direction of Cierges and Roach are The Portuguese bark Porto ira sunk by a German submarine 550 miles off the Atlantic coast on July 27, and the navy department announ ces that the crew had been landed at an American port by a British steamer. Tre Porto, a Portuguese steamer, which was sunk on July 27 by a Ger man submarine, carried a cargo of cotton and was bound from Savannah, Ga., for Oporto. Ambassador Francis and the heads of the British, French and Italian mis sions, left Vologda on July 30 for Mur mansk, on the Arctic coast. Murmansk and much of the territory southward is controlled by American and entente forces sent there to pro tect large quantities of -war supplies sent there before the collapse of the- Russian armv. Reports that the treasury is consid ering making public the allied pur chases in this country, most of which are financed by the United States gov ernment, are denied by officials. The theory of the submarine as a determining factor in the war ihas been exploded according to Secretary Daniels, after reading the latest boast of the German Emperor. The house and ways means commit tee has agreed on the doubling of the present special taxes on tobacco, ci gi.rs and cigarettes and raising taxes on brokers, amusements and others. According to the new ruling by the house ways and means committee, a uniform tax of 8 per cent will be put on Pullman seats and berths and pas senger rates. European. The crisis in the allied offensive on the Soissons-Rhevns salient has been reached, it is thought by military ex perts. French troops have entered the town of Soissons, the western anchor point of what' remains of that famous sa lient All along the battle line from Sois sons to Thillois, French, United States and British troops have pushed in the entire enemy front and the Germans are in precipitate retreat. The plains behind the northwestern portion of the battle front now are en tirely dominated by the allied bjg guns. The chief importance of Lord Lans- downe's peace letter, read at a con ference recently of his supporters which consists largely in criticisms of the allies for their failure to state their war aims more specifically and urges them to take advantage of any opportunity for a discussion of terms is that he is the ony British states man of first rank who is listed in his own country and abroad as a pacifist, and his words, without doubt, will be given the greatest publicity in the countries of big central powers. The famous "hunger stone" in the River Elbe near Tetschen, according to German tradition, predicts a famine when seen, is now visible for the first time since the beginning of the war. On the stone is chiseled in old German 'When ye see me ye will weep." Emperor William has issued a proc amation to the German army and navy, saying Germany is facing the hardest struggle of the war, and ex presses no doubt that Germany will ul timately be able to foil the desperate efforts of the allies. In the southern section of the bat tle front United States and French troops have negotiated almost all ; of the hill and forest country. On the eastern battle front the Brit ish and French are almost astride the Rheims-Soissons railway. Just how far the retreat of the Ger mans will go cannot at present be forecast, but it is not improbable that the Germans may be compelled to take refuge north of the Aisne. Numerous towns, villages and ham ets have been captured by the allied troops in the last two weeks. On the Aisne-Marne front two miles were gained with almost no flght- A German captain taken prisoner told the allied commanders that the German artillery, had been with drawn. He said the Germans' next stand would ' doubtless bo on the Vsle river, and not the Ardre. The fortifying by the Germans of Fismes indicates that that place will be the center of the next fixed line of battle. Joint action between Japan, the en tente powers and the "United States in Siberia is assured. Japan has at last found acceptable the United States' proposal. The town of Kekaterinburg, in the province of Perm, near the Siberian border, has been taken by the Czecho slovaks, according to the newspaper Isvestia, of Moscow. With the latest development of the Czecho-Slovak movement the Bolshe vik! press is raising cries of alarm. The Pravda, for instance, declares the Czecho-Slovak danger is growing like an avalanche and the counter revo lutionary movement is extending. The Russian government has agreed that Livonia and Esthonia shall be separated from Russian as a result of negotiations between Germany and the soiyet government. The Berlin correspondent of The Post says there will be a change in the organization of the territory occu pied by the Germans since the annex ation of Esthonia and Livonia. Courland will be separated from the administrative territory of the German commander-in-chief in the east and will be united with Livonia and Estonia under the new German treaty with Russia. A London dispatch says that the English people are cheerfully "bearing the ever-increasing strain of expense which has been placed upon theii ,iiH-minii iiiili(iniiimmni""" awwiiiiiwMiyiiii ' in 11 ' - - . ' MMji l 1 Actual destruction of a Germap lHoat by a depth charge dropped by an American destroyer, the pho tograph being taken by an officer of onlof the troopships attacked. 2 Major R. D. Paddock of the American army, acting division signal officer, who,-recently won the Croix de Guerre and wears a wound stripe. 3 American troops going through wire entanglements to meet the Huns. NEWS REVIEW OF THE GREAT WAR Huns Falling Back Toward the Vesle River Line in the Aisne Marne Region, YANKEES WIN HEW LAURELS Defeat Best Division of the Prussian Guard In Desperate Fighting Ger mans and Bolshevik! Face Re volts In the Near East. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The fifth year of the great war opened with the German forces In the Aisne-Marne region on the defensive after the collapse of the drive on Par- Is and the assumption of the Initia tive by the allies under General Fdch ; the British calmly awaiting the prom ised offensive by Crown Prince Rup precht; the French and Italians driv ing ahead in Albania ; Ukraine, Rou mania and much of Russia rising against the tyranny of German dom ination ; Turkey quarreling with Bul garia and Austria with Germany over the spoils of war in the near East ; the allies putting into execution their plans to help the anti-German ele ments in Siberia, and, above all, the American troops In the thick of the fighting in France and winning the plaudits of the world for their splen did work. With the apparent intention of mak ing a stand, at least temporarily, on the Yesle river line, the Germans slowed up their retreat from the Aisne Marne salient last week and brought their heavy artillery into action. De spite the determined and dashing at tacks of the allies from the south, west and east, the Huns had with drawn In most cases with deliberation, choosing the ground for their rear guard actions and saving probably the greater part of their supplies. The possibility of cutting off and capturing any very large number of them passed when it was found that their power ful resistance at the ends of the arc, near Soissons and Reims, prevented any considerable advance of the al lies there. At the south front of the salient the Huns fought fiercely for days while their guns and munitions were being transported to the northA and then quickly moved back, the French and Americans following with" a rash. This movement carried the, battle up to and beyond the River Ourcq. There was evidence that the German commander intended to halt south of that river for a time, but he was not allowed to do this. To the front between Fere-en-Tarde-nois and Passy were brought the crack divisions of the Prussian guards, to hold back the Americans, but the lat ter refused to be checked, and with a gallantry that aroused the cheers of the allied nations they met and de feated the best fighters of the kaiser's armies. These Prussians, unlike so many of the Huns, fight to the death when told to hold a certain position, and the Americans, also, do not know the word surrender. Consequently the combat was bloody in the extreme. It was centered In and about the villages of Nesles. Sergy and Cierges, and they changed hands repeatedly before the Yankees finally got the upper hand and established themselves firmly in the towns and then pushed on beyond the river, taking Serlnges and mak' ing a salient In the German lines that threatened what remained of the en emy In the pocket between there and VIlle-en-TardenoIs. That It was not an idle threat was proved two days later, when the Amer ican and French troops struck hard at this pocket, storming the heights between Sergy and Serlnges. They were preceded hy a rolling barrage and moved forward behind a smoke cloud. It was rnnounced that this at tack was for the purpose of straight ening the allied line, but Its possihtll tles were considerable. The advance, which was stubbornly resisted and was made difficult by miles of barbed-wire wtan1emehts. carried the allies plose tjjl vphamery, jthe town where Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt fell to his death with his airplane. t . " .Between Fere and Soissons the Frenchwith the assistance of certain Scottish units, made some progress toward the north and east in the face of : powerful resistance. The Scots cajptured the park and chateau In the outskirts of Buzancy and held them against repeated counter-attacks; and the French occupied Grand Rozoy antjj Cuny and. In a brilliant operation, took by storm the Butte Chaulmbnt, a commanding height. On. the eastern side of the rapidly diminishing salient the French and British moved steadily northward un til the entire Dormans-Reims road was in their possession ; Romlgny, Bligny weire . occupied and Vllle-en-Tardenols was reached. Along here the Hons put up some of their most stubborn re sistance and strongest counter-attacks, and infantry operations there came al most to a standstill, though the artil lery! continued its activity, as It did on ah other sectors. In the early days of the allied of fensive the Germans were vastly In ferior in the air, but last week many of fhelr best pilots were summoned, and) their machines swarmed over the -allied lines and communication roads, fighting with remarkable daring and doinjg considerable execution. The al lied aviators were by no means lack ing and there were Innumerable stir ring combats In the air. t;j i'j tab Wh-en General Foch relaxed some what! in Infantry action, perhaps to give his troops a bit of rest, perhaps in preparation for further Important operations, it was expected the Hun would seize the opportunity to attack. But hie ' did not do so, evidently not be ing anxious to meet the allies oftener than necessary, Observers thought, from the movements of the enemy, that ;Je would not stop long on the Vesle river line, but would retire to the platean; between that stream and the Aisneif iThis might be rendered com pulsory by the capture of Vllle-en-Tardenbls; which would open the way for the allies to advance down the Ardre .valley to Fismes. Up; to. the time of writing, according to Frepch estimates, the Germans had used 145 divisions on the Solssons Relmsj front, some of them having been brought Into action several times. Ber lin claimed to have taken 24,000 pris oners,; ? while those captured by the allies ; were said to number 84,000. The object of each army has been to kill as J many as possible, of its oppo nents, ill ' . German prisoners, It Is said, are deeply Repressed by the failure of the crown (prince's drive and the success of Foch's offensive. They now realize the strength of the American arms, and thj people in Germany also are beginning to learn the truth about that, despite the attempts of the lead ers andj the press to minimize It and to excuse the armv's severe reverse. On th other fronts there was not a great dsl of action, though the Brit ish struck a swift blow In the north, surrounding and capturing the town of Me&is add taking prisoners. There wns. little change in the Alban ian situation, though Vienna claimed the Frnifco-Italian forces had met with a reverse. The Austrians are very sore oyr the repeated bombing of Pola an( other bases and are threat ening recitation on Italian cities, espe cially Venice. American troops arrived In Italy last week and were received wtth Joy that wag Almost h"erical. In th near East the best n?ws came frnjn TJkrnine. where the pns ants a r Reported to be in full revolt against the Tluns. Field Marshal Vnn Elchhorij.; the German commander in Ukrainewho hnd treated the people like slfffes. was assassinate by a young fislnn social revMntnnlr In Kiev. an1 It wns nl'1 the life of General jVoronnds!M. the htmnn a tool of Gfmnny p'n wn threatened. OormaV orrespni nts who have been trrivlMln!? In Rivu rpnrt thrt the feellnsrl fhrp c"Mn.t Oormrnv Is i Jt very strong and vidosnrad and rhft ' the uslnjffssr mm Hi - rnH-hnlhe - ! Ik. ;Tnln and Trot-v admit that I bolshevik, Wernment Is In peril and j call for "mass terrorism" against the bourgeoisie, and the repulse of the Czecho-Slovaks. A part of that re markable force has penetrated to the south as far as the Black sea, captur ing a port and vessels, and another body has taken Ekaterlnberg, an Im portant town in the province of Perm near the Siberian border, the center of a rich mining district The allied powers were still negotiating concern ing the extension of aid to the Czecho slovaks and other anti-German ele ments in Russia, but were going ahead wiHh their military preparations for the proposed expedition, and - it was said on Thursday that American, Brit ish and Japanese troops already had been dispatched to Vladivostok. The soviet government of Russia Is reported to have renounced all claims to the great provinces of Esthonia and Livonia, and these, together with Courland, probably will be united on- der a general government man auspices. under Ger- From Copenhagen, the source of many. lies, came the statement that Turkey had severed relations with Germany and Austria because of the disputes between the Turks and Bul garia over territory taken from Ron- mania and Russia. There was every evidence that this was "greatly exag- gerated.V as Mark Twain said of the report of his death, but there " is tio doubt that Turkey is tired of the war and is getting all the worst of It. How ever. Germany, being In control of Turkish finances and In command of Turkish armies, has the whip hand and probably will be able to keep the Turks to their alliance for some time yet. fa General March, chief of staff, has been working out the. details of a plan by which the American land forces are to be amalgamated Into one army, the existing -distinctions between the reg ular army, the National army and the federalized National Guard being wiped out. This will do away with many jealousies concerning promo tions and every soldier will wear on his collar the letters "U. S.,M the "N. A." and "N. G." being removed. The chief of staff also Is beginning to "loosen up" some regarding informa tion as to what American units are engaged Inccertafn operations. The war department prepared the country last week for the reception of long casualty lists. The casualties in the Aisne-Marne battle, though not excessive when the magnitude of the struggle Is considered, may run as high as 10 per cent, it Is stated. It is comforting to know that the vast majority of the wounded are suffering only from clean bullet wounds and will soon be back in the lines. Sir Eric Geddes. first lord of the British admiralty, told the house of commons the naval situation was sat isfactory and that the civilized world was gaining steadily on the U-boats, by reducing the sinkings and increas ing the building; of ships. He said America's program of destroyers and antj-submarlne craft Is beginning to come alone and "will become a veri table torrent." fa More trouble In realizing the Ameri can aircraft program came to Hght with the information that Genern1 Pershing hart to!d the war depMrtni"nt to send over no rnre nf th De Hivi-land-Four plan's hrd been building, until chnncres were "1fu!p, ns they had proved useless. Rr.-orv Bmt- hrl denied this and hnlf :''-"i?ttni jf hv statlnsr thit fn.r"vevnts onP bjri7 made In the pir.ne thnt it h'-nd "Mil make it tlsfrrtrr an'1 hMt General Pershlncr hps ro-"fo ship ment Of the r? H;.r''j.n,1c tjv, ,n. ate committee Invest'et'ntr "irnl-ines heard tettr,onv h'"htv pr:'!-?i th work of Gnernl Krfy. r nr o airo'nne oneratton ht v c John D. Rvrn. In rhnr"" f n''rtt"-?'". was onlv hepinnin" to get his bearin In the big task. " IRSJ While Mr.-Hoovrr in F" -"" re ferrinir "-lh th . ,,..r...n,M mopthlv fi'lnM-finop nr 0 t t. pvM'THle T nrrcor, ...... . sugar fninfne. The vhrrt m the voluntary pledge to ' w that cereut. STRONG DEFENSE I1W IJCei r m.. AMERICAN AND ALLIED ABOUT Rl n-r m- UU SOISSONS RHEIMS SALIENT. WHAT HAS FOE IN i! Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria i. Worried on Diminution 0f Strength The Germans now are impo3 ssnuug uyyusiuon lo -he fnrtu 3 vaneof the allied tronns w Vesle fiver from the f-a.n 0f n . r to the region west of Rii-ims Meantime, however. he main bdj of the enemy a.'my romi lies nue to make their way toward the Aisne fn north of which stream thfy hope S0J were to reach a haven of safm- f.' the persistent onslaught of the meri can, French, British and Italian rnn' who in less than three weks have u but blotted out the Soissons-Rh.; salient. Notwithstanding the brinein? play by the enemy of large numbers of machine guns and artillery 0f heavier caliber and the emDlovmom of large numbers of picked troops, jn. eluding the wel-tried Prussian num and the Bavarians; and in spite of the fact that the rains have sent the Vpi out of bounds and turned the low lands into quagmires, the American and the other allied troops have forced crossings of the river at a number of nw points and on the north side' of the stream are engaging the enemv. Just what the Germans have in mind cannot be fortetold. ft is known however, that Crown Prince Rud- pecht of Bavaria during the early stages of the allied offensive on the Soissons-Rheims sector detached large numbers of his men and sent them to the aid of his sorely-tried im perial cousin, the German crown prince, thereby weakening iiis line while Field Marshal Haig's front was not materially touched by withdraw als. It is not improbable, therefore. that Ruprecht is worrying somewhat over this diminution in strength and already has placed barriers between himself and the forces fronting him. to ward off posible attacks and is en deavoring to ascertain what chances, he has to hold other positions which he had Intended ultimately to launch a drive toward the channel ports. ONE OF MOST HARROWING DISASTERS RECORDED A British Port. The ship torpedoed as she was nearing home from France was struck in the after part of the en gine room. Three members of trie staff were killed here and the dyna mos were destroyed, plunging the ves sel into darkness. Just over the dynamo was the ward room, containing more than 100 pa tients. Most of these were killed out right by the explosion. - The others, injured by the explosion, were trapped and perished except for a few who jumped overboard and were picked up A majority of the survivors had only slight protectin of their night clothing and suffered severely from exposure. All the Americans were sick cases, and the two officers were suffering with pneumonia. The Amer icans have been sent to a hospital. SURTAXES ON INCOMES ABOVE $200,000 RAISED Washlnsrton. Surtaxes on all in comes above $200,000 were increased with a maximum of 75 per cent on all above $5,000,000 by the house ways and means committee in its considera tion of the $8,000,000,000 revenue bin. Incomes between $200,000 and $300.0W will pay 55 per cent surtax, instead of the 52 per cent heretofore planned; in comes of $300,000 to $500,000, 60 per cent, instead of 58: $500,000 to $4,000.- 0000, 65 per cent instead of 63; $1,000. 000, to $5,000,000, 70 per cent and all above $5,000,000, 75 per cent instead of 64 per cent as at present. INFLUX OF AMERICANS DISCOURAGES GERMANS London. The ebbing of the German morale resulting from recent events has been noticeably hastened by tne great influx of American troops. In this particular rezard. the German high command is paying the penalty of concealment and misrepresenta tion. The appearance in the battle line of powerful American forces and the striking proof of their spienum fighting quality gives the lie direct to all German official bombast. ALL-AMERICAN CREWS ARE TO MAN MERCHANT SHIPS Washington Manning of the Amer ican merchant marine ! with 100 Per cent American crews is to be included in the program of activities of the shipping board. Chairman Hurley an nounced, ading that the sucess of tn huge shipbuilding program was assu fed. New training ships are to be pla c ed at New Orleans and Cleveland a said, and 36,000 men are expected be trained in the next year.
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